About Me

Mitch Wheat has been working as a professional programmer since 1984, graduating with a honours degree in Mathematics from Warwick University, UK in 1986. He moved to Perth in 1995, having worked in software houses in London and Rotterdam. He has worked in the areas of mining, electronics, research, defence, financial, GIS, telecommunications, engineering, and information management.
Mitch has worked mainly with Microsoft technologies (since Windows version 3.0) but has also used UNIX. He holds the following Microsoft certifications: MCPD (Web and Windows) using C# and SQL Server MCITP (Admin and Developer). His preferred development environment is C#, .Net Framework and SQL Server. Mitch has worked as an independent consultant for the last 10 years, and is currently involved with helping teams improve their Software Development Life Cycle. His areas of special interest lie in performance tuning

Monday, March 12, 2007

Another Visual Studio Tip

Several months ago, a colleague was editing a file in Visual Studio 2003 and said “...it would be great if you could select a block of text by columns...”. He was therefore a little surprised when I mentioned that you have been able to do this since around version 4 of what was then called Visual C++! If you hold down the ALT key whilst right-click dragging a selection you can select a rectangular block of text. (Ok, I know most people will already know this, but just in case…)